CRAFT 2022

RoMa Craft Tobac

• Cigar Reviewed: CRAFT 2022
• Country of Origin: Nicaragua
• Factory: Fábrica de Tabacos Nica Sueño S.A.
• Wrapper: Undisclosed
• Binder: Undisclosed
• Filler: Undisclosed
• Length: 5 Inches
• Ring Gauge: 50
• Vitola: Robusto
• MSRP: $12 (Box of 10, $120)
• Release Date: May 2022
• Number of Cigars Released: 2,500 Boxes of 10 Cigars (25,000 Total Cigars)
• Original Score: 92

In 2013, RoMa Craft Tobac introduced a new limited edition with an interesting concept: take parts of each of the company’s lines and use them to blend one cigar in a unique vitola that was dubbed CRAFT.

Although CRAFT was announced as an annual limited edition creation, more than four years passed between the first release and the second release. Since then, CRAFT has been an annual release, albeit in varying production numbers and distribution approaches ranging from being limited to as few as two retailers to last year’s release, which was offered to the majority of RoMa Craft Tobac accounts.

Unlike every other cigar on this list, CRAFT 2022 is not a singular cigar. As is obvious from the moment the box’s heavy lid is removed, the cigars inside are not all the same as evidenced by the different tobacco designs. Over the course of around three months, two specific pairs at the Fábrica de Tabacos Nica Sueño S.A. factory rolled the 25,000 different cigars used for this release.

While a couple of CRAFT releases in past years have come close to making the cut for the Top 25, there is a simple reason you are reading about the 2022 incarnation on the list this year: it is easily the best CRAFT to date. — Brooks Whittington.